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Degas, unlike most other artists of his time, was firmly entrenched in the great tradition of classical French draughtsmanship. It may come as a revelation to many that beneath his pretty colors he was the self-proclaimed inheritor of that archetype of neoclassicism, Ingres. Why, then, did he find so "unworked" a medium as the monotype suitable to his purposes...
Political Gap. Constantine, despite his legendary name, is not King of an ancient Greece, inheritor of the land of Minos and Alexander the Great. His is a new nation, almost 140 years old, that is still healing its wounds after centuries of foreign invasion and occupation, slavery and civil war that left the land and the people weak, drained of resources and with only their spirit for consolation. That spirit is at the heart of the present trouble, for Greece today has not retained much of its ancient legacy of moderation and temperance. The Greeks are a volatile, hotheaded...
...Hughes, inheritor of a $16 million fortune derived from oil-drilling equipment, had become chief stockholder of ten-year-old TWA in 1939. He and President Jack Frye pushed TWA into technological airline leadership with such innovations as the feathering propeller, the automatic pilot, wing and propeller deicers, and wing flaps for shorter and safer landings. Yet flashes of brilliance and even the visionary decision to put TWA into the overseas trade could not make up for the caprices of Howard Hughes, whom an associate once dubbed "the spook of American capitalism." He abhorred the details of decisions involving money...
...dazedly, he makes his way to the searchers' rendezvous. There, in a disused outhouse the python plops down to crush him-and inadvertently knocks from the eaves a shoe box containing 10,000 long-abandoned dollars. The hunt completed, the python slain, the treasure delivered to its rightful inheritor, Milo discovers that there is more to life than the gift of genital...
Abetted behind the scenes by dear old Mother, Booth advances from obscurity to quasi nobility as inheritor of a fabulous English country seat-actually Blenheim Palace, where much of the filming took place, marking a ruinous setback to the dignity of Britain's stately homes. Hollywood Writer-Director Andrew Stone's handiwork, billed as a black comedy, hues to the popular misnomer for any movie that dares to flaunt some inept waggery or mishandle a corpse. Secret obviously deserves a description of another color. "Green-sickly" might...